Reddit Enhancement Suite
Shares rank 62 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Free extension for old Reddit that people say makes the site tolerable, with features like tracking your lifetime upvotes. Some features reportedly break.
Free extension for old Reddit that people say makes the site tolerable, with features like tracking your lifetime upvotes. Some features reportedly break.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Makes old Reddit tolerable
“Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom userstyle CSS and uBlock make Reddit tolerable.”
Comment from 23 Jul 2026 in “So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe” “I use old on desktop with RES”
Comment from 4 Dec 2025 in “Reddit's CEO says r/popular 'sucks,' and it's going away” Retro early-internet look
“The early internet aesthetic is why, as much as I dislike the site's culture, I continue to use reddit + RES.”
Comment from 23 Dec 2025 in “Ruby website redesigned” “It's glorious... like a time machine to before Reddit enshittified itself”
Comment from 14 Apr 2026 in “A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"”
Other browser extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other browser extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SponsorBlock | 137 | 4 | 97% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Firefox Multi-Account Containers | 76 | 13 | 85% | 10 | 7.5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| NoScript | 61 | 11 | 85% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| Reddit Enhancement SuiteThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“things like image galleries, message notifications, RemindMe bot, RES, /r/random, etc all have various problems and breakage”
“Old.reddit, the Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), custom userstyle CSS and uBlock make Reddit tolerable.”
“One cool thing RES used to do”
“It's glorious... like a time machine to before Reddit enshittified itself”
“The early internet aesthetic is why, as much as I dislike the site's culture, I continue to use reddit + RES.”
“since it tracks the lifetime number of upvotes I give other users”
“I use old on desktop with RES”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.